Comment on YSK that you can disable AI features on DuckDuckGo without cookies
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 week ago
I started using recently. No complaints.
Does anyone know what you can put for the “suggestions API url” in Firefox? It’s optional so I left it blank.
Just as an FYI, if you use suggestions everything you type in your url bar will be sent to your search provider in order to return search suggestions. Even in incognito windows, unless you explicitly disable it.
So I’d suggest only doing that if you really trust your search provider to keep that information secret and not link it to you as a person, and only if search suggestions as a feature are worth that risk to you.
This is an interesting point. They’re going to get the final search string though, so does it matter much if when I search “baked potato recipe” they also get requests for [baked, baked potato, baked potato recipe] (assuming they denounce/split on space/etc) ?
No that doesn’t matter at all, but it might matter to you if they get all the addresses you type just up to the point before you type .com, i.e. pornhub before you add the dot com or maybe some health related stuff, or every bank & insurance company you do business with, adult websites, etc.
adsche@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This seems to work for me:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ac/?q=%25s&type=listuseyourmainfinger@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Thanks, this works for me too now …